Allison Randal

Allison Randal is a software developer and open source strategist. She is
founder and president of Onyx Neon, president of the
Open Source Initiative, board member of
the Perl Foundation, and
co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations
group for open source leaders. She collaborates in the Debian, Ubuntu, Python,
Perl, and OpenStack projects, and currently works on OpenStack open source
strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, leading a team of upstream-focused
engineers.

At various points in the past she has served as chief architect of the
Parrot virtual machine, member of the board of directors for the Python
Software Foundation, chairman of the Parrot Foundation, Open Source Evangelist
at O'Reilly, conference chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu,
and Open Source Advisor at Canonical.